Re: Logon Screens
  By: HusTler to Nightfox on Mon Jun 03 2019 07:39 pm

 Ni>> Same with .asc.. .asc files can contain Synchronet color codes,
 Ni>> which will be converted to ANSI or left out, depending on the
 Ni>> user's terminal 

 Hu> I've been meaning to ask about that. I get the ans2asc and asc2ans and
 Hu> have been using them. What is a msg file? Why no ans2msg or asc2msg? Is
 Hu> this another syncronet creation?

My understanding is that .asc and .msg files are pretty much the same format,
so an ans2msg and msg2ans really isn't needed.  If you want to convert an ANSI
to .msg, just use ans2asc and then rename the resulting .asc to .msg.

I had a look at the wiki page on this:
http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:menu_files
It says .asc files are meant to contain ASCII characters and CP437 characters
optionally, and .msg files contain ASCII/CP437 characters.  I'm not really
clear on how .asc and .msg files are supposed to be different, but there's a
table on that page explaining the priority of file selection based on the
user's terminal.  Assuming you have files with the same base filename for both
.asc and .msg, there are some situations where the .asc version would have
priority and some situations where the .msg version would have priority.

Nightfox

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